Ubi Soft platform character gets his own TV series

Rayman 2: The Great Escape finally arrives on PC and N64 on October 22. It's been a long time coming too, because the first incarnation hit the shelves way back when in 1995. Ubi Soft reckon it sold some 4.25 million on all formats, which is quite astonishing. This time around, Rayman is in free-roaming 3D, similar to Mario et al, and the action is viewed at various times in both the third and first-person perspectives.

But there's more. Rayman is getting his own 13-part TV series. The animation apparently mirrors the game itself, but whether it appears on some obscure cable channel or terrestrial TV remains to be seen.

"Back in 1995 we really didn't have any idea what kind of impact the Rayman brand would have on youth culture," says Ubi Soft's Managing Director, Graham Chambers, "but when we began to see the appeal the character had on PlayStation, that's when we began to consider its wider potential. Inevitably we came to the realisation that we could adapt the Rayman character into a full-fledged computer animated TV series."

Hmm. We'll reserve judgement until we've seen it, eh?